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colour schemer
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Colours

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This is a small program to create colour schemes and palette. There's a System.Windows.Forms version as well as a GTK version, intended for Linux/BSD systems. The backend is portable to create a frontend on any .NET platform.

Features

  • Simple UI
  • Cleanish-MVC design allowing for creating new interfaces, easily
    • Windows frontend
    • GTK frontend
    • Console frontend
      • Invoke like any other unix tool - one shot with parameters
      • Written in F#
    • And any other UI framework supporting C# or another .NET language
  • Easily create colour schemes
    • Variety of algorithms, easy to extend for adding more
  • Organize colours into palettes
    • Natively operates on GIMP palettes, imports/exports Photoshop palettes

Similar programs

I won't deny inspiration ;)

  • Gpick - Does a lot of things, including palette management and scheme generation, (with a greater variety of options, and a wheel to see where they fit) but also previews of colours in sample usage, importing from images, and various ways to blend colours into new ones. Has a clumsy interface though. Written in C++ and Lua, GTK only.
  • Color Wheel Pro - The inspiration for Agave. Multiple types of wheel options, preview templates, and Photoshop palette conversion. Seemingly unmaintained and proprietary.
  • Agave - My main inspiration. Basic, but with a nice UI. Seemingly unmaintained? Written in C++, GTK only.

Goals

  • Android/iOS/UWP ports: The Core library has been converted to a PCL. This means you need to wrap RgbColor to your framework's native color type like NSColor, System.Drawing.Color, Gdk.Color, etc.
  • Android version: Should be possible. What likely needs to be implemented is a color picker, color well, and any glue.
  • Mac version: A port using MonoMac or Xamarin.Mac should be very feasible, due to the system having robust color GUI controls, but my only Mac is a MacMini1,1 running SL. I've taken a look in VMware and Xcode makes me want to puke.
  • iOS version: An iOS port for the same reasons as the Mac.
  • UWP/WinRT version: A Windows 10 version IMHO is of limited usefulness, as desktop Windows 10 runs the SWF version fine, and I lack a WM10 device. On the other hand, I do have a Lumia 520 and Surface RT running and stuck on 8.1.
  • Eyedropper in SWF version. The GTK version naturally has this because the native colour picker does. Portability might have been a concern, but the GTK version exists now.
  • I'm not entirely happy with the UI though.
  • DPI awareness in SWF version: Does this even work?
  • Rebrand? - Colours is a generic name.
  • To go with this, maybe an icon.
  • A colour wheel would be impressive. Kuler does this.
  • Alternative colour wheels for different blending beyond RGB would be nice.
  • Improved colour picker in Windows Forms.
  • Picking colors from images would be neat.